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> Energy and climate is something that very well may break our society. Unfortunately, if you run almost any process that humans are doing right now that has e
by titzer 9y ago
> Energy and climate is something that very well may break our society.
Unfortunately, if you run almost any process that humans are doing right now that has even 1% growth, in 1000 years, that's a factor of 21000x (.5% is 146x), and we're dead. So pretty much everything has to reach an S curve and stabilize, or we are totally F'd. Population, energy usage, land usage, food, trash, inflation, everything.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThat's another reason to invest in space exploration :). But yes, we should be minimizing wasteful growth where we can. Food will have to grow in lockstep with population, but the growth of trash is something we can reduce. And there's especially no need to add artificial high-growth energy sinks like cryptocurrencies to the mix.